When I try to compare myself with less educated/poorer people I realize my advantages can be singificantly if not mostly attributed to my upbringing. I was raised in an upper-middle class 2 parent household, belong to the majority ethnicity of my country, attended private school, had access to test prep, tutoring, extracurriculars, etc. I feel that I am certainly at the median or below among those with my preconditions.
Further, (and perhaps this was the subtextual point of my original post), there seems to be a sense of "getting it" among the intellectual elite, who seem to embody an attitude that 200k FAANG jobs right out of college are a no-brainer, that "failing" is merely being an L4 by 30, that getting into YC or some comparable measure, though obviously a huge feat for any normal person, is just a right of passage for those who who have the knack.
This "thing" that I am reffering to seems to be a presumed cultural mode permeating through the fog of cliquey tech-elite signaling on Twitter and elsewhere. Maybe it's a sort of fear of social exlusion towards those in groups I feel embody the intellectual status I've always envied. Maybe this is all a game of those on the better side of serendipity making it appear much easier than it was, or maybe there is something else I'm just not getting.